LUNCHTIME BULLETIN: One Russian diplomat to be expelled; AG comments 'utterly out of order'
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Tánaiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney has announced that one Russian diplomat will be expelled from Ireland.
The Social Democrats have said the Attorney General was “utterly out of order” making public comments about legislation to appoint judges as well as a live Supreme Court case.
A Derry newspaper has reported that the family of victims of the Buncrana Pier tragedy have received a claim against the deceased’s estate from a woman who helped at the scene.
Gardaí have recovered the body of a Brazilian man who was reported missing in Clondalkin, Dublin.
There is “significant interest” among international mineral companies in Ireland as a gold mining region, according to prospecting firm Connemara Mining.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has turned down an invitation to give evidence to a UK House of Commons committee investigating allegations of misuse of the data of the social media giant's users.
The fire service was "outside of the loop" of the police and ambulance emergency response to the Manchester Arena attack leading to a two-hour delay, a major UK report said today.
Simon Zebo and Andrew Conway will be given until tomorrow’s final heavy training session to prove their fitness for next Saturday’s Champions Cup quarter-final against Toulon.
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Phillip Toledano’s exhibition in Cork documents his last days with his father, and also deals with his own dread of ageing.
Ant McPartlin will feature in this weekend’s Saturday Night Takeaway – in a sketch which was pre-recorded for the TV show.
Did you ever realise you had been mispronouncing a word all your life? Did that realisation happen on national television? That's the position Kilkenny primary school teacher Paul is in tonight on First Dates.
